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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-06

LAD @ HOU

Home plate: Edwin Jimenez

“The catcher barely had to sell a thing.”

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Umpire Grade
96.3% accurate
0.0
Run Favor
runs, HOU
0
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Edwin Jimenez called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Cam Smith — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Max Muncy — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Christian Walker — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲4 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Teoscar Hernández vs Jason Alexander
  2. 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Zach Dezenzo vs Edgardo Henriquez
  3. 3-0.13▲7 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Hyeseong Kim vs Jason Alexander

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

3 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Max Muncy — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Christian Walker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.